environmental sustainability
The Touring Network builds digital tools to measure CO2 of rural touring
The Touring Network works to support, represent and develop professional live performances happening in small-scale venues across the Highlands & Islands. Across such a vast geographic area, from Shetland to Argyll and Perthshire to Skye, the carbon costs of touring to remote and varied locations can be significant – not only are distances great but transport and buildings infrastructure is also often limited. In order to…
Applied Arts Scotland: Sustainable AmbITions
Applied Arts Scotland (AAS) is a membership organisation which supports the professional development of Scottish applied artists. AAS is going through fundamental change in the way it delivers its services and received Make:IT:Happen funds to take the opportunity to rethink communication and administration systems in order to be efficient and environmentally responsible. Please read more below on our Sustainable…
claimexpenses.com – a case study on counting carbon
This case study supported by AmbITion Scotland reveals Creative Carbon Scotland‘s digital development claimexpenses.com. The tool was developed with support from Sustainable AmbITion, a fund which focussed on utilising digital technologies for better environmental sustainability. Reflecting on the development of claimexpenses.com, users from Festivals Edinburgh and the Edinburgh International Festival, as well as the tool’s creators Creative…
Car Share Skye – Sabhal Mòr Ostaig & Sustainable AmbITion
Reducing Carbon emissions by sharing car journeys Hello, from Sabhal Mòr Ostaig, Scotland’s Gaelic College, based in the Sleat peninsula in the south of Skye where we provide a venue to SEALL, a local arts organisation who provide a full program of arts events throughout the year. We were looking to work with SEALL to…
Doune the Rabbit Hole Festival’s Car-Share Scheme
Doune the Rabbit Hole Festival created a Sustainable AmbITion digital development, and so we set up our own online system to allow us to operate our own car-share scheme. You can watch it in action here: You can also read about our reflections and results – we definitely think there’s a few things you could…
Puppet Animation Scotland CRM/Database Case Study
To CRM or not to CRM – a database rich media report In 2013 Puppet Animation Scotland were the happy receivers of Organisational Development Funding from AmbITion to source and implement a CRM/Database system to support the administration of our two annual festivals and other activities. It was a longer process than anticipated but very…
Sustainable cultural AmbITions for a low carbon transition
Today the IPCC published its 5th report to confirm that by 2100, the average projection for how much warming will occur is expected to be slightly above the 2 degrees C threshold, considered to be the temperature above which it is considered that climate change will damage the global environment: as well as the damage…
AmbITions for an environmentally sustainable future
(A shorter version of this article by Hannah Rudman appeared as a blog in The Guardian’s Culture Professionals Network.) A huge body of science built up over the last 50 years proves that climate change is anthropogenic: human made. The balance of nature is being significantly affected by the amount of carbon dioxide (CO2) humans and…
Hannah Rudman joins international thought leaders at Shift Happens V
I’m very excited to be speaking at 2013 Shift Happens V – I’ve spoken at 2 previous Shifts, and this year’s line up seems to embody the very notion of Shift: asking thought leaders from a wide range of spheres to show and provoke thinking and action in how shift can happen in the arts,…
Performing Arts organisations go green
Dr. Ben Todd spoke at Shift Happens at the beginning of this month, reporting that North London’s Arcola Theatre has become the first venue to install an environmentally friendly hydrogen fuel cell to power the site. The 5kw fuel source, which operates almost silently and produces nothing but electricity and clean water, will run the…
Building Sustainable Arts Venues
Its the Indianapolis Museum of Art in my sights again, but this week I’m excited by the way they’re focussing on considering their environmental impact. Their sustainability as a 21st century arts organisation is underpinned by their porous attitude and really effective digital audience development strategies (see earlier blog entries). But the sustainability of the…